Isn't counter-narcotics one of the missions of the Coast Guard? Using Navy warships as a police force is incredibly inappropriate and probably illegal. But then they likely had a few coasties on board to blur the line.

It angers me that politicans on both sides of the aisle are actually willing to erode trusted, solid, proven programs like Social Security and Medicare that deliver the difference between life or death and happiness or misery to millions of Americans, yet keep the wasteful military/prison/"war on drugs" spending flowing.

It's criminal in my opinion.

Trim the fat off of the miltary-prison-industrial complex and GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS off of SS and Medicare - and I am talking to both Democrats and Republicans.